Jennifer Lopez just won Milan Fashion Week.
Almost 20 years after she made headlines in the dress that changed the Internet as we know it, J.Lo closed the runway at Versace’s spring 2020 show in a reimagined version of her iconic plunging Versace dress she wore to the Grammy Awards in 2000. The jungle-inspired dress — arguably one of the most famous red carpet looks of all time — is said to have been the impetus for the creation of Google Image Search.
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“I found out that because of that night and because of that dress, Google Images was actually created,” Lopez said on her YouTube channel in April. “That so many people went searching for this and they had nowhere to search a picture at that time on the Internet, they created Google Images.”
Almost 20 years after she made headlines in the dress that changed the Internet as we know it, J.Lo closed the runway at Versace’s spring 2020 show in a reimagined version of her iconic plunging Versace dress she wore to the Grammy Awards in 2000. The jungle-inspired dress — arguably one of the most famous red carpet looks of all time — is said to have been the impetus for the creation of Google Image Search.
Scroll Down to Watch Jennifer Lopez Walk the Versace Runway
“I found out that because of that night and because of that dress, Google Images was actually created,” Lopez said on her YouTube channel in April. “That so many people went searching for this and they had nowhere to search a picture at that time on the Internet, they created Google Images.”
Jennifer Lopez at the Grammy Awards in 2000.
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In 2015, former Google chief executive officer, Eric Schmidt, wrote in a blogpost on Project Syndicate about Lopez’s dress. “At the time, it was the most popular search query we had ever seen, but we had no surefire way of getting users exactly what they wanted. J.Lo wearing that dress, Google Image